osu! is a rhythm game that can be played both online and offline. You only need a mouse in order to play this addictive game. You have to click on the "beats" that appear on the screen while the selected song is playing. There are three types of "beats" that you can click on: hit circles, sliders (click and hold the left mouse button and follow the ball) and spinners (quickly move the mouse in circles). During a song you will have to click on them before the health bar empties or you will lose. This game is not exactly easy to play. It requires your full attention and dexterity if you want to get a high score (or, if you are like me, barely go through one song).
After you launch the game for the first time, it is highly recommended to go through the tutorial (in fact, it's the only "song" available) so that you get used to the controls in a low speed. In order to get more "beatmaps" you have to log in your account and download the songs you want out of hundreds of available ones.
Besides being addictive and fun to play, this game offers you the possibility to compete with other users. You can see the online ranking lists and, if you are a competitive person, you will lose countless hours trying to become one of the best players. You can improve your online ranking in three modes: in solo mode, in multiplayer mode (cooperative and competitive) or in special, non-standard osu! play mode. more
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Well, some pros are:
- addictive
- 4 different styles to play
- several inbuilt mods to make your life a lot harder (seriously harder, not joking)
- I barely saw a bug in 6 months (even in beta version)
- free to play
- spactate feature
- its really beautiful and nice, does not have a heavy interface, simple, elegant
- online rank
- does not requires internet connection to be played
- several chats where you can talk: there is the announcement chat, the chat where peppy (the dev of the game writes), each country has it's own chat and private chat
- you can make your own beatmap
Cons:
- you need to pay (donate) to have the supporters profile, which allows you do download a beatmap without leaving the game for example or auto downloading when spectating some1
- not competitive: you can't play against a random player, the maximum you can do is play against your friends on the game
- higer levels are impossible to play, you need almost a year to be able to play a beatmap with 4 stars (stars are the level of the song,the game can have up to 10 stars)
- a lot of beatmaps are made with anime songs (meaning japanese/korean songs)
- you will be always going to osu.ppy.sh to download beatmaps, which will increase the space the game needs to save them. I have a friend that his OSU folder has 15GB!! keep in mind the game it self only has around 300MB... a single beatmap (with video) can have around 20MB... (20MB for 3-4 minutes of playing is a lot for me)
I recommend this game, really, but his lack on competivity...